THE DANBURY REPORTER.
Published Every Thursday By N. E. & E. P. Pepper, Owners
THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, ISK)S.
OLD STOKES COMIN' ALONG.
'I he building of 11 splendid new court house ami an excellent jail
has done more to give Stokes county an uplift than anything that has
happened among us in many years. Outsiders have so much more
respect for us than formerly. It has greatly enhanced property values
iu the county. There is no mistake about this fact. Farm lands are
worth more, nnd there is noticeable a greater degree of satisfaction
among the farmers than was the case a year or two ago, when so many
•people left the county. The tide has turned inward. We learn that
the Levi Lackey wholesale grocery concern at Madison will probably
remove to Walnut Cove shortly, augumented by SIO,(XH) in its capital
stock furnished by a former Stokes citizen now living in Colorado
but who proposes to return to this county. Two new banks are being
built, which will furnish money for various enterprises. Roller mills,
brick yards, canneries, mercantile establishments, and various other
•uterprises are being established all orer the county. The farmers are
improving their farms and building nicer dwellings. The Sunday
Schools are in the best condition and there are far more of them than
ever before; more new school houses and churches are being erected,
the telephone is permeating every section of the county, the summer'
resorts are doing a good business, bringing into the county thousands,
of dollars, besides affording capitalists opportunity to study our resour- j
ces. In a word, the county is on the up-grade fast. This is apparent to
anyone.
Let us go to work for the development of our resources. We need
an electric railroad through the county, more education, more enlight
enment, fewer blockade stills, better roads and saner methods of farm
ing. \V e need lumber industries, canning factories, broom factories,
mining operations, brick yards, chair factories, straw and mattress
factories, and a hundred other industries that will bring money to our
county and give employment to our people.
The method of Mr. W. A. Petree in raising tobacco plants without
burning plant-beds, as told of in his address before the recent Farm
ers' Institute here, which we are publishing, should be worth many
thousands of dollars to Stokes county. Burning plant-beds is fast
deforesting our lands, and at the present rate the time is in the near
future that we must burn coal or pay exorbitant prices for wood for
fuel and building purposes. Mr. Petree clearly establishes the fact
that the old-time method is foolish, expensive and useless.
Fodder is russeting on the stalk, tobacco is ripening for the farmers'
keen blade, muscadines and chinquapins are inviting the small boy to
Hie retreats of the old field and the wood. These and other things
mark the approach of the crimson tide of autumn, the pieasantest sea
son of the year, but yet the saddest. For in the air is that "nameless
pathos" a suggestion of sweet days that will never come again,
aroused in sensitive breasts by the indications of decay in nature.
INDIAN GRAVE YARD FOUND.
Mr. J. R. Banner Unearths Ghastly
Relic Near Walnut Cove—Mrs. Jas.
Neal to Take Charge o( Cove Hotel
Friday.
Hon. W. W. King, of Danbury,
stopped over last Sunday after
noon on his way to Dobson to at
tend Surry court.
Mr. T. A. Hatch, representing
the Lexington Furniture Factories,
stopped over at the Central Mon
day night.
Mr. D. S. Watkins made a dy
ing trip to Campbell Sunday and
returned Monday.
A son of Mr. Hedgecock, one
mile south east of this place, is
seriously ill with typhoid fever.
A large spider, about the size of
h man's thumb, is creating quite an
excitement in this place by foriu
ng a straight line of letters in his
web. The tirst section spells
warning. He in still printing and
we want to see what he will make
next. The colored people say they
would not kill him for one thou
sand dollars.
Mr. J. R. Banner, proprietor of
the brick yard at this place, dug
into an Indian grave yard Monday
and found skulls with the teeth
and jaw bone intact. He was
■bowing some of the teeth on the
streets and they were in a good
state of preservation. No telling
how old they are; the skull bones
crumbled away when taken out
of the ground.
Kev. F. L. Tildern, of High
Point Missionary Baptist church,
who has been assiting Rev. Mr.
.Johnson in a protracted meeting
at Ayersrille, stopped over in this
place Monday on his way home,
and repoitsa very successful meet
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Kelley and Miss
Minnie Landreth made a Hying
trip to Walkertown Sunday, re
turning in the afternoon.
Mrs. Jas. Neal and son will take
DEATH OF MR. ED MEADOWS.
People of Germanton Cutting and
Curing Tobacco Personals.
Germanton, Aug. 30. —The peo
ple in this section are cutting and
curing their tobacco. Some of the
farmers are getiug a very good j
color. Sheriff Petree cut the tirst I
barn iu this section.
Mr. Elbert Pike spent a few
days at his home last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Westmore-'
land spent the day with Mr. and j
Mrs. R. J. Petree. at "Oakland," j
last Sunday.
Miss Kva Voss and brother, j
Mr. Nat, visited Miss Lillie Glenn,!
of Stoneville, last Saturday and
Sunday. We know they had a
splendid time.
We are very sorry to hear of the
death of Mr. Ed. Meadows. Mr.
Meadows was an admirable youngl
man, well thought of by all who 1
knew him. Mr. Meadows married
a Miss Smith about two years ago
and moved to High Point and
engaged in the grocery business
with his father-in-law, Mr. John
Smith. Mrs. Meadows' health was
not good, so last spring he moved
back to his father's and has been
farming since. It seems hard for.
oue to be taken away so early iu
life, but "the Lord giveth and the
Lord taketh awny." Mr. Meadows
is just going on before us. We all
must answer the call sooner or
later. Let us be sure then that
our "lights are trimmed and burn
ing."
"LOOKER ON."
possession of the Bailey House in
this place the first of September,
next Friday, and Mr. Bailey will
move to his farm one-half mile
wmt of here.
Mr. J. W. Rierson, of Mount
Airy, was in town Sunday visiting
relatives.
SOLOMON STOKES.
HOW TO GROW TOBACCO
(Continued from first page.)
1 wish to sacrifice pounds to qual
ity, I like to let coarse or rank
plants run up considerably before
I tup them. And I always prime
such plants higher and give them
a few more leaves than Ido med
ium plants. On the other hand, I
like to top weakly looking plants
just about as soon as I can pinch
the bud out and give the plant as
many leavos as I think it will ma
ture. And I always prime such
plants less and give them n less
number of loaves than I do med
ium plants.
The next thing in order is the
suckering of the tobacco. Home
farmers say that if the first suck
ers that come are allowed to grow
large before they are broken out,
the tobacco does not sucker so
much after that as it does if the
suckers are broken out when they
are small, but this is decidedly
wrong. There are just so many
little sucker germs to grow out
into suckers anyway, and the soon
er the suckers are broken out the
better it is for the tobacco. I have
already said, that, it is the nature
of all plants to reproduce them
selves. They naturally exert their
forces t« develop their seed, and
until the tobacco plant is topped,
it exerts its energies to produce its
seed through or by its bud or top;
but when the bud is broken out,
then the energies of the plant are
turned in another direction, that
is, the plant seeks or tries to pro
duce its seed through its suckers
But when the suckers are all
broken out, then the plant no
longer having a channel through
which to expend or waste its force
to produce seed has its energies
thrown into the leaf, and it begins
to gather up and store its oils and
germs away in the leaf, and this is
j what gives us a good heavy, waxy,
oily and salable quality of tobac
co. When the suckers are allow
ed to get large before they are
broken out, they draw heavily on
the vitality of the plants and on
the strongest of the soil. They
push the leaves so far away from
the stalk that the stnlk cannot
jfeed or nourish and mature them
j well. And when the second crop
:of suckers come they sometimes
j push many of the leaves entirely
| off the stalks and they drop down
|on the ground and are lost unless
| we take the time and pains to save
'them; and they are not worth
j much when they are saved. So
! you see, brother farmer, that the
j sooner we break the suckers out
;of our tobacco the better it will be
j for it, anil the more money it will
i put into our pockets.
The next thing in order, is the
cutting of tobacco. We should let
our tobacco get reasonably ripe
i before we cut it, but not so per
fectly dead-ripe that it will be life
| less and papery after it is cured.
! For the tobacco plant is somewhat
j like an apple. If you let an apple
get perfectly dead-ripe before you
jtakc it off the tree, it keeps get
ting worse after it is taken off, but
,if yon take it off before it gets so i
(lead-ripe it will get some better
after it is taken off. And so it is
| with tobacco, if it is allowed to
| stall lin the field until it gets
jperf-etly dead-ripe, it will he life
• less and papery after it is cured,
' but if cut before it gets HO dead
.ride it will get some b -tter after
jit is cured. In cutting, unless the
j tobacco is uniformly ripe ami you
cut it clean as you go, yoti should
not let more than one hand cut on
, the same curing. Of course, differ
ent hands may cut on different
curings, but unless the tobc cu is
j cut clean as you go, they should
| not cut on the simo curing, for
| they will not pick plants of utiU
| form rij>eness, and uniformity is
\ what we want in the tobacco crop.
I When the tobacco it, cut it should
| not lie in the sun only just long
enough to wilt a little luf ire it is
put in the barn. Yon should not
I crowd it in the barn, as this will
prevent a free circulation of the
air and heat through it while it is
j being cured. But as the weather
gets cooler you can crowd a littio
j more in tlio l>arn|thau when the
weather is hot.
I have now talked somewhat at
length about what seems to me to
IHJ the most important features of
tobacco culture. I have told you
of certain plans and methods 1
believe to be good, and I have
given you my reasons for thinking
them good. We began with the
tobacco seed, and now wo have our
tobacco in the barn ready to be
cured. But as the quality or
character of the tobacco, and the
existing state of the atmosphere,
ns regards its humidity and tem
perature, must all bo taken into
consideration when the tobacco is
cured, I cannot give you any
definite plan or process by which
the curing should bo done. Each
farmer must be governed by his
own past experience and by his
own judgement in the matter. So,
now with these remarks, and trust
ing that you may derive some
l>enefit from what I have said, and
thanking you for your kind and
respectful hearing, I leave the
subject with you.
KING ROUTE ONE.
King Route 1, Aug. 17.
Mr. Editor :
Will you please allow me space
to answer Sunday School Girl and
Roving Joe.
Now, Roving Joe, 1 think the
word "and" occurs 4(1277 times iu
the Bible which I think is the
most of any word.
Now I will give you both a few
interesting facts maybe that will
do you both good and others, too,
as you know that others will read
to see if I am correct.
The Bible contains 35,864,89
letters, 77,3(1,92 words, 31093
verses, 1189 chapters. The word
"Lord" occurs 7,730 times in the
Bible. The word "God" occurs
4,370 times in the Bible. The
word "Boy" and "Boys" are men
tioned 3 times as follows: Gen.
25-27, Joel 4-3 Zee. 8-5. The word
"Girl" and "Girls" are mentioned
twice as follows: Joel 3-3 Zee. 8-5.
The word "Rev." occurs but once
which is in the 9th verse of the
111 Ps. The shortest verse in the
Old Testament is 1 Crou 2-25. It
contains 3 words, aggegating 12
letters, and reads thus: "Eber,
l'eleg. Rev." The longest verse
in the Bible is Esth, 8:9. It con
tains itO words, numbering 42(1
tatters. The longest verse in the
New Testament is Rev. 20:4. It
embraces (18 words, aggregating
231 letters. One verse in the Bible
contains all the letters of the
alphabet excepting J., namely,
Ezra 7:21. The name "Jesus"
occurs in both the first and last
verses of the New Testament.
And God said: "Let us make man
iu our image after our likeness."
Now, Sunday School Girl, and
Roving Joe, will you please de
scribe this image and likeness that
man was created in?
GOOD BOY.
WALNUT COVE ROUTE 4.
Walnut Cove Route 4, Aug. 25.
—People in this section are busy
cutting and curing tobacco.
Mr. Lee Murray carried his b»st
girl, Miss Kate Burton, to Belew's
Creek Sunday.
Miss Anna Patton, of Kerners
ville, is visiting her grandmother,
i Mrs. Jennie Woods, for the past
two weeks. She will return to her
home next Saturday.
Mr. Gray Brown went to Wins
ton this week and bought him a
new mowing machine. He did not
get home iu time to try it the day
ho bought it, so he deci M he
could not sleep until he tried it,
and decided he would sit up with
it. So ah nit 10 o'clock Mrs. Lil
da wuke up and heard him singing
"More Abiut Jesus." And she
went out to see if ho would come
to the house and f innd him asleep.
She wake.l him up and he says,
"Lilla I (I earned we had our r.ew
machine,'"
t Mr. N uine Burton is looking
very sail this week. He must of
got disappointed Sunday.
TO CVRR A COLD IN ONE
DAY.
Fake Laxative Broino Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money if it fails to cure. E. W.
GIO«I H signature is on each box.
GREETING FROM NEW YORK.
A Stokes County Girl Far-away Fro-i j
Home Rejoices at Our Progress— .
Some Good Ideas for Our People.
South Edmeston, N. Y., Aug. 7.
—1 am glad to hoar of s > many
improvements in Stokes. Hope
they all may be a success anil
prove a benefit to the county. It
needed a bank long ago. I don't
understand why Stokes has never
had a fair. I am glad you are
planning to have one this fall, and
hope it will be a success. It does
mo good to hear of any improve
ment in the South.
I hope the day is not soon to pass
that the South will be looked up
on as being on > hundred years
behind time. There are being a
good many improvements in the
South, but there is room for many
more. If every one who owns a
farm would keep the briars,
bushes, etc., mowed along the
streams, and by the road-side, that
would be one good improvement.
How much nicer they would look.
Anyone can enjoy a drive so much
better along a road where it is
clean, clear of briars, bushes, and
so on. The road-sides here are
mowed when the meadows are.
They get lots of nice hay along
the roads. lam sorry to say that
we southern people do not take as
much interest in cleaning up the
little corners on our farms as they
do here. It adds much to the
looks of a farm. I have one farm
in view on or near the Stokes line
that always looks as neat as a pin.
Why can't we all have our farms
look like this V
Another thing Stokes needs is
decent bridges across the small
streams. Just think of the horses
having to wade through, matters
not how cold the water is. They
have bridges here across nil the
small streams, and most of them
are arch bridges made of stone.
I never saw a stream here that you
had to drive through.
"Cicero" has some good ideas,
but I don't agree with him on j
selling your farm. 1 think if any
one has a home and has it paid
for, matters not if it is a one-horse
farm, hold ou to it, there is a
chance to add more to it. Oi e
horse is as much as some people
can manage and more than thej
manage to advantage sometime?.
Three cheers for "Aunt Lucel
ii's" piece. It just struck me. Hir
i leas are mine. I believe in hav
iig lots of pure air in the lied-*
rooms. I sleep with my wiud jwt
up every night, matters not Inn
cold. Have cover enough to keej.
warm and let the fresh air in
After you have tried this aw liili
yin cannot sleep good in a room
where there is not fresh air. It is
a good plan to air the beds well
every morning, turn back the
clothes and let them air an hour
or so. People are looking out for
their health more than they did
years ago.
I'm sure that the editor knew of
what be spoke in the issue of
June 29th, about raising tobacco.
1 DRAGGING
if
p, down pains are a symptom of the most serious trouble which
g can attack a woman, viz: failing of the womb. With this,
: generally, come irregular, painful, scanty or profuse periods,
wasteful, weakening drains, dreadful backache, headache,
nervousness, dizziness, irritability, tired feeling, inability to
I walk, loss of appetite, color and beauty. The cure is
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menses, stops drains and stimulates the womb muscles to
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Ofcammata, Tenn. oina I ever hud In my houaa."
I think that (lio people in St.-k-a
have depended on tobacco so long
that they think there in no other
way of yetting any money. But
thev are beginning to realize that
something Ims pot to !>e done.
.Fust think of tin' work to raise it.
And it is most always on hand.
People here make lots of money
raising poultry, and I think that
Stokes people coul 1 too. Of
course, you would hav.) to he at
some expense. You can't expect
to make monav raising poultry
and expect the fowls to roost on
pine trees. Have some decent
houses and lota of wire to make
coops and yards for the young
fowls. That is the way they have
them here. Have the top of the
yards covered so that owls, etc.,
cannot get them. They keep them
up until large enough for market
ing. If you are going into the
poultry business, you want to fix
a way to protect the fowls. We
havo lost lots of chickens at home
by minks.
Haying is most over here. Some
like a few good hay days being
through.
Oats are getting ripe.
We had our iirst new apples the
pist week.
We are having lots of red rasp
berries. Blackberries are turning
some. I wish tlmt the editor anil
a number of Stokes people could
lie here a fe«v weeks now. Every
thing looks so beautiful, so many
different colors of green. The
meadows are a light green, also
millet, and the corn is a thrifty
black green. The buckwheat is
in full bloom. Think it has a
lovely blossom.
I have been to the falls but not
to the lake this summer. I have
been invited to spend a week at
the lake. It would be a lovely trip
for me. lam going to stay a few
days if I can't stay a week. Some
of my friends went yesterday.
I enjoy fishing and out door
sports, especially boat riding.
We have had lots of rain, cloud
bursts, at places near here which
did much damage to garden vege
tables and growing crops.
I have read some good letters
in tli J Reporter from Sunday
S-hool trir's. I enjoy Sunday
School, but I don't go as often ns
I would I ke to.
Good wishes to all.
S.
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